| 词条 | L. Russell Brown |
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| name = L. Russell Brown | background = non_performing_personnel | birth_name = Lawrence Russell Brown | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1940|6|29}} | birth_place = Newark, New Jersey, U.S. | genre = Traditional pop, rock and roll | occupation = Songwriter | associated_acts = The Four Seasons Tony Orlando and Dawn }} Lawrence "Larry" Russell Brown[1] (born June 29, 1940), known as L. Russell Brown, is an American lyricist and composer. He is most noted for his songs, co-written with Irwin Levine, "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" and "Knock Three Times"—international hits for the 1970s pop music group Tony Orlando and Dawn. He also co-wrote "C'mon Marianne" for The Four Seasons, and The Partridge Family 1971 song, "I Woke Up In Love This Morning". BiographyBorn in Newark, New Jersey,[2] Brown began his songwriting career when he was sixteen with the R&B label Fury Records. Co-writing with Ray Bloodworth in the mid-1960s, and working for Bob Crewe,[3] he wrote the hits "C'mon Marianne" and "Watch the Flowers Grow" for the Four Seasons.[3] "C'mon Marianne" featured in Jersey Boys, the Broadway musical. With Crewe, Brown also wrote "Sock It to Me Baby!", a 1967 hit for Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels.[3] Brown started writing with Irwin Levine in 1970, and found success with several hits for Dawn, including "Knock Three Times", "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" - both songs reaching #1 in the US and UK – and "Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose". "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" appears in such films as Wallace and Gromitt, Fargo, and Forrest Gump, and has reputedly been recorded over one thousand times.[4] One of Brown's later successes as a writer was "Use It Up and Wear It Out", co-written with Sandy Linzer, which was a #1 hit in the UK for Odyssey in 1980.[3] Other musicians who have recorded his songs include Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Perry Como, Lesley Gore, Ray Conniff, Johnny Mathis, and Donny Osmond.[2][4][3] References1. ^L. Russell Brown, SecondhandSongs.com 2. ^1 Biography, Sandy Lee Watkins Songwriting Festival, 2015. Retrieved October 19, 2015 3. ^1 2 3 Songs written by L. Russell Brown, MusicVF.com. Retrieved October 19, 2015 4. ^1 2 Gary James, "Interview with L. Russell Brown", ClassicBands.com. Retrieved October 19, 2015 External links
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